Trauma Informed Career Development Practice

CFCC 1070 - Trauma Informed Career Development Practice

This workshop is an evidence-based program that reflects current trauma research. It provides career development professionals with informed skills and strategies to identify challenges, along with tangible tools to work effectively with individuals who have a history of trauma and are engaging in career development. It will also include discussions on COVID-19 and collective trauma.

This workshop is not intended to train CDPs to diagnose trauma in their clients.  It is intended to provide CDPs with the tools they need to work with clients who may have a history of trauma and who are engaging in Career Development activities. This is an interactive workshop that deals directly with trauma material.  Please note, some students may find some of the material triggering.  We will address this in the workshop and it should be known to students before they are enrolled. 

Week 1:  Fundamentals

  • Defining Trauma
  • Understanding Signs & Signals
  • Understanding impacts on Career Development

Week 2: Career Development and Trauma

  • Describing impacts in detail
  • Understanding influence of trauma on Career Development tasks
  • Understanding trauma informed practices

Week 3: Trauma Informed Career Development Practice

  • Describing strategies to work in trauma informed ways
  • Describing specific career development strategies
  • Working on case studies

Registration Details

DatesMarch 9 -29, 2025
Delivery Fully Online, 15 hours total
Tuition $525.00, includes all materials
CRN11363
To Register Call 604-527-5472  or contact CE Registration

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CFCC 1080 - Advanced Trauma Informed Career Development Practice

WEEK 1:  Deepening the Foundation 

  • Neuroscience of Trauma - Polyvagal theory 
  • Survival Strategies and Defensive Styles 
  • Loss, grief, and the process of grieving 
  • Understanding impacts on Career Development 

WEEK 2: Trauma-Informed Practices 

  • Strategies and tools for fostering safety and belonging 
  • Toxic Positivity, Resilience, and Post Traumatic Growth 
  • Language dynamics 
  • Case conferencing 

WEEK 3: Intersectionality, Power Dynamics, and Advocacy  

  • Uncovering bias in career development  
  • Exploring privilege and power dynamics 
  • Trauma-informed organizations 
  • Case conferencing 

Registration Details

DatesTBA
Delivery

 Fully Online, 15 hours total

 Live Sessions: TBA

Tuition $525.00, includes all materials
CRN TBA
To Register Call 604-527-5472  or contact CE Registration

NEW COURSE!

CFCC 1090 - Trauma Informed Organization

WEEK 1:  Fundamentals

  • Prevalence and impacts of trauma on workers, clients, and business outcomes 
  • Key assumptions and principles of being trauma informed 
  • 4Rs of trauma-informed organizations and communities of practice 

WEEK 2:  Implications

  • Rethinking ways of working: client interactions 
  • Rethinking ways of working:  mentally healthy psychologically safe workplaces 
  • Advocacy – voice for systemic changes in employment practices, outcome models 

WEEK 3:  Adoption

  • Missouri Model – stages of adoption for becoming a trauma-informed organization 
  • Change management, organization and systems design 
  • Trauma-informed referrals and communities of practice

Registration Details

DatesTBA
Delivery Fully Online, 15 hours total
Tuition $525.00, includes all materials
CRNTBA
To Register Call 604-527-5472  or contact CE Registration

Presenter Biography

Catherine Hajnal, PhD, is an educator with over 25 years of experience creating learning environments that foster a deeper understanding of the human condition.  With a specialization in the losses inherent in life’s many transitions, Catherine facilitates exploration of the process of grieving and its transformative potential. She completed her doctoral work in Human Factors Engineering at the University of Wisconsin exploring the intersection of occupational safety, health and well-being, and the design of work.